Owen Benjamin, the exiled comedian turned homesteader, illustrates what happens when a man refuses the “Devil’s bargain” of institutional approval and accepts exile in exchange for authenticity. This essay examines what his story reveals about the principle of yajna, that every true work, every expression of the Self, requires something to be given up. In an age when most trade integrity for access, Benjamin’s descent from fame into relative obscurity becomes a parable of individuation: the necessary crucifixion of the ego for the sake of wholeness.
https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/the-price-of-wholeness-owen-benjamin
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Agree
It’s a bit like what happened with my career in tech. I created a popular open source project… It started being used by a bunch of big companies. Like I remember someone from Blizzard Entertainment said they were using it… Then I joined a crypto project and I started speaking more freely about political stuff… Nothing very controversial but my project didn’t make it very big in corporate world after that in spite of the fact that it works really well and provided scalability out of the box… Which is exactly what corporations need. Later, I faced a lot of corrupt political shenanigans which further suppressed my career.
I don’t know about other sectors of the economy but tech sector feels completely fake. Not free market at all. When someone in tech talks about finding product-market fit, I roll my eyes. It’s nonsense. Many projects just have bots as users. That’s what they call product-market fit.